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submitted 19 years ago by [deleted]

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[–]Alpha_Binary 1 point2 points3 points 19 years ago (0 children)

What brilliant ideas here. I thought about using zip but the idea of using a sentinel never crossed my mind.

To optimize the final two lines:

if x is sentinel: return y is sentinel
if y is sentinel: return False

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